Draft list of proposed names for a regional preparatory workshop for a conference on commons-oriented economics.

Context via Proposal for a Conference on Commons-Oriented Economics

thanks for putting from 1 to 3 stars next to each name according to priority.

What Do We Need To Do

Agree on names / first batch of 10 by wednesday, June 3

send out first invitation, send 'save the date' letter, by June 6

ask for more recommendations

decide on second batch by June 13

were booking 16 rooms

budget via https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhaYViL59NNLdDI4SzFCM1RRRWZ6X2QwamlXcF9rOVE#gid=0

QUESTIONS

- should we have a quota on women (one third) to make sure of fair representation ?

- should we have a maximum on westerners, say one third (to avoid over-representation)

The Room and Date

Venue: Office of Heinrich Böll Stiftung Bangkok Hotel: Salil Hotel, Thonglor 1, near BTS Thonlor Maximum of people is 20, to sit comfortable, including five of us staff members, which means 15 people to invite.

Date: 13. and 14.10.2012 Arrival of participants during 12.10. to have a welcome dinner to together Departure on 14. or 15.10. depending on flights

Proposed names

Australia

Tasmanian founder of Nutrient Dense Project

NDS is an exemplary global cooperation from citizen scientist and farmers around agriculture

Jose Ramos, Peer Productions documentary, based in Singapore during that weekend ***

JR is the author of a really interesting PhD thesis on the nine worldviews underlying the alterglobalisation movement, very commons oriented, and initiator of a coop for documentary film-making. He also proposes, if possible, a filming of the event for $1,600

Brian Fitzgerald, Creative Commons, Australia

Bhutan

ask via Hans van Willewaard GNH movement

should be sbd from the Centre for Bhutan Studies; but perhaps not necessarily Dasho Karma Ura but sbd. younger / Gross National Happiness

China

Isaac Mao, Sharism ***

Well-known digital activist from China.

India

prof. from UNEP, name? it was: Ramaswamy Sudarshan**

gave a remarkable speech in Bkk last year

Jagdeesh Rao FES OR sbd. else from FES (a women?) ** ask David (I suggest a conversation with Jagdeesh --David)

FES is a prominent commons org in India

Soma Parthasarthy***: New Delhi woman and commons scholar who studies women and subsistence commons

because we need to strenghten female representation

Shiv Visvanathan***, wrote excellent piece on known commons in Common Voices journal

crucial magazine with commons insights in India

Prabir Purkayasha Prabkant, People's Science Network Forum**

Lawrence Liang, Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore** (or Prashant Iyengar, who attended Crottorf?)

crucial networker

Frederick Noronha, Goa, Bytes4All

Vinod Raina, People's Science and Democracy Forum***

Sunita Narain *

MORE WOMEN?? sbd. related to Vandana Shiva's group??

Indonesia

Hendro Sangkoyo, School of Democrativ Economics, hendro.sangkoyo@gmail.com ; he came higly recommended from Larry Lohmann who I met again in Rio recently

New Zealand

Sophie Jerram, artist works on energy/commons nexus ***
Prue Taylor, legal scholar, specialized on Common Heritage of Mankind; prue.taylor@auckland.ac.nz *

Philippines

Roberto Verzola: works specifically around the Commons, and the abundance/scarcity/sufficiency angle***
Nina Ramirez: phillipino social-christian activist, works with local communities and created integrated education for grassroots leaders*
Nicolas Perlas: theory of 3 forces*

Marina Durano, a feminist economist who could bring in the link to care economy and its potential to be organised through commons based approaches instead of market based pricing as it starts being the case here in Germany, just contacted her through facebook to find out about her whereabouts... in 2008 I worked with her as course leader for the Asia Summer school in Manila on Engendering Macroeconomics, she previously worked with UNIFEM, but returned to Miriam College in Summer 2008

Singapore

Michael Heng, michael.heng@energycorp-global.com ("Sustainability consulting and value integrator for renewal energy". [1]

Thailand

Prof. Surat Hongla?? Chulalongkorn Uni.**, Jost should have the address through Pui or Wanan
Nicolas Mendoza, Colombian, based in Chiang Mai, undertakes research on Buddhist Eonomics from commons perspective for Hong Kong uni***
Richard Hames, Asian Foresight Institute ***
Pablo Solon Why the Green Economy is a wrong path to restore the equilibrium with nature and what alternatives do we have?: ex-UN-Embassador of Bolivia and now (again) working within civil society. Executive director of Focus on the Global South in Bangkok; contact: <pablosolon@gmail.com> ; bridges commons and Mother Earth debate *** (For Jost: see my text on the debate with Steiner in Rio where Pablo challenged him strongly on boell.de in the Rio plus 20 section)

Vietnam

Thomas Leif Olsen, works on Mirror Democracy project, also based in Hua Hin ***

Miscellaneous

Asia Commons conference participants?

I suggest: Takayoshi Kusago, Kansai University, Japan - I am not sure ...

Liz Alden Wily, Kenya ? ** yes, would be great, depends on where she currently is ... might be also interesting for the European deep dive

check Right Livelihood Award winners, we have Sulak Sivaraksa in Thailand, but he might be too old, not sure, Pracha
Charles Eisenstein, USA

Organizers and assistants

Nancy Alexander <Nancy.Alexander@us.boell.org>

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